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negative. All such experiments, it is to be apprehended, 

 would be about as effectual as sending an army, with all 

 the apparatus of war, to take the field against them, as 

 this author says is done in Syria, where the BashaAv of 

 Tripoli once raised a force of 4000 soldiers to fight the 

 locusts, and very summarily ordered all to be hanged 

 who thinking it beneath them to waste their valour upon 

 such pygmy foes, refused to join the party a . 



I am, &c. 

 a Travels, 447. 



